AbstractsChemistry

The synthesis of polyoxyethylene glycols and the relation of their viscosities to chain length.

by Reid George. Fordyce




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Chemistry.
Degree: PhD
Year: 1939
Keywords: Chemistry.
Record ID: 1556813
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile131535.pdf


Abstract

During the past twenty years the extension of knowledge relating to the ehem1stry of high molecular weight substances has become increasingly important. The pronounced industrial advances in the realm of plastics and artificial fibres within recent years has given impetus to the search for fundamental information concerning the mechanism of polymerisation and the structure and properties of polymers either as such or in the form of co- and mixed polymers. [...]